@swiscombe Another thing worth noting is that the attendance statistics I quoted were from 2010, and WWoHP didn’t open until June of 2010. So that 32% increase came after the land existed for only half a year.

”The Game” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

@Thomas Well…let’s not do that.

@Murdock @Cross That’s definitely the problem, but isn’t that a similar problem with keeping TV series viewers tuned in from week to week? There has to be something that makes people want to follow you down the rabbit hole. I would argue that there are a lot of people interested in engaging (See: The Dark Knight Rises ARG, ilovebees, cloudmakers.org)

@Murdock One of my undergrad professors is in the process of writing a transmedia textbook. Argues that openness to interpretation is what is creating the lack of clarity.

I’ve spent the past hour trying to hold back uncontrollable sobs so as not to interrupt class. Just ignore the depressed whimpers you hear during the movie.

@Goldstein Nothing to do with class, but FYI Peyton is out for at least 2-3 months…

Does anyone know if the book he’s referring to is available somewhere?

And that probably has a lot to do with @Simon’s argument

@Alex @Michael Of course, I just mean that a film seems to be better at it

@Simon Would be an interesting research experiment to look into the ideas of ”scope” and ”magnitude” in games and virtual worlds. Doesn’t seem to be a problem with screens, because movies still seem to be able to capture it. Something about making it accessible seems to make it smaller.